Watchful Citizen
watchfulcitizen@goingdark.social
<p>Neurodivergent tech nerd obsessed with privacy. Hyperfixates and overshares accordingly. </p><p>Against mass surveillance in all its forms. Into FOSS and keeping my homelab from plotting against me. Running <a href="https://goingdark.social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">goingdark.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://goingdark.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://goingdark.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://goingdark.social/tags/Encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Encryption</span></a> <a href="https://goingdark.social/tags/DigitalRights" cla
Posts
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Post #1603880
On January 30, the EU Council voted to endorse a two-year extension of "Chat Control 1.0". This is a significant setback. If passed, it legalizes the mass scanning of private messages and photos by US tech giants using error-prone AI, without any suspicion of crime. It also paves the way for mandatory ID verification (ending anonymity) and effectively bans anyone under 17 from using messaging apps. potentially preventing them from even chatting with their own parents. However, the fig...
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Post #873387
I can't be able to figure out why my laptop touchpad keeps turnings itself off on Fedora 43 KDE plasma. Any Linux ninja that have any idea what it could be? Happens when I shut the lid. Even before suspend #Linux #KDE #plasma #fedora43 #wayland
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Post #621612
@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they&#39;re dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They&#39;re pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they&#39;re helping criminals. They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that&#39;s a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news...
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Post #568289
Friendly reminder that privacy isn't all or nothing. You don't have to go full tinfoil hat, build a bunker, delete everything and live off the grid to give a damn about it. It's a mindset. A slow change in behavior over time that fits YOUR life. You don't have to build a Faraday cage but you also don't have to share your location with every app that asks.Don't post your real name, birthday and location everywhere.You don't have to swear off every digital payment fo...
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Post #568282
Looks good! @fanfare #kubernetes #goingdark #mastoadmin
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Post #15977
I left mainstream platforms completely burned out and found the fediverse, and god it felt like I could finally breathe again without someone tracking every single thing I did. But even here I kept wondering who actually protects my data when someone comes asking for it, and I realized I didn't want to trust anyone else with that answer. So I run https://goingdark.social now because I wanted that certainty for myself and my community. When someone demands data or tries to shut down what we...